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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    RE: KDE 3.0.2 Usability Study - First Steps
From:       Poletti Don <Don.Poletti () comverse ! com>
Date:       2002-07-18 20:54:53
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I'm right with you.

I'm not sure about the clutter factor or how big these would have
to be to make it easy to click them.

I'm fine with reversing the meaning too. The sub icon could
be the select/drag spot.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Bonyak [mailto:dingodonkey@stny.rr.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 4:13 PM
>To: kde-usability@mail.kde.org
>Subject: Re: KDE 3.0.2 Usability Study - First Steps
>
>
>On Thursday 18 July 2002 03:02 pm, Poletti Don wrote:
>> What about this for a solution although its probably too 
>radical, well
>> any change to basic clicking is radical
>>
>> Have additional symbols on icons. Sort of like the alias arrow added
>> in windows. Icons that can be launched will have a launch 
>symbol single
>> clicking that opens it a click anywhere else is a select. 
>Other common
>> commands
>> might rate a "subicon" as well.
>
>This is an interesting concept, indeed.  On paper, it sounds 
>good -- but in 
>action, I can't yet judge.  I would personally give it a try, 
>that is, if you 
>switched it so that clicking the symbol would select and 
>anywhere else would 
>launch.  Since you launch more often than select (...don't 
>you?), it would 
>make sense that way.
>
>But then again, that could be just cluttering things up.  It 
>could also work 
>as a solution to that nasty embedded read-only viewer problem, 
>only replace 
>the symbol's functionality with opening the file embedded, and 
>anywhere else 
>would open it as usual.
>
>My biggest fear with this is that it would crowd and 
>complicate things.  Not 
>that they're simple now...
>
>
> - dingo
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